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Play Prey

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 29 / 36
Date: July 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Prey is a bona-fide 5 star game. Play it soon because everyone is going to be raving about it. The SUMMER BLASTER for 2006 is HERE! Basically it is Turok meets Doom 3 on steroids. If you like first person shooters (fps), then getting Prey is probably the next best move you will make next to owning Half-Life 2: Episode 1 and F.E.A.R. The future of fps in space has not outlived its lifespan. If you liked Doom 3, which was the last good adrenaline pumping monster mash on Mars, then you will love Prey. Prey is back to basics again, whopping up the graphics considerably, brilliant lighting effects and a frightening story to boot that isn't afraid to have lots of gore and shocks around the corner. It has a certain feel of HALO about it too with its alien-type weapons. You play an Indian who has been beamed up off his reserve into a spaceship where the aliens are eating up the humans. Prey has awesome in-game action sequences and is quite shocking for the sum of its fiendish parts. You have an old Indian trick out-of-body-experience (OBE) which helps you to reach areas in the rooms you can't normally get to. The rooms also rotate when you shoot switches which offers various level puzzles to get through. Most of the time you totally loose your orientation which makes the play even more fun, especially when portals start opening after room rotations. Duke Nukem lovers will also enjoy the fun on display. An alien's severed hand to open doors is a nice touch. Art Bell's radio talk-show of the aliens invasion is broadcast at various junctions in the game. You don't die either. Well you do, but you are given unlimited chances to regenerate your blue or red health by shooting at blue or red birds in the land of your ancestors. It is a great idea and works. The Boss fights are massive. You even get to fly some aircraft with fire power. Running along anti-gravity tracks around rooms upside down and across walls while unloading your gun into the screaming aliens that have driven people insane who are crying banging on doors is probably reason enough to own the thing if it wasn't for the photorealistic gfx. Slime on the wall has never looked so real. The end boss battles are amazing. The graphics are simply outstanding. This is a high quality fps that deserves your time and CPU power. Prey it today.

*ADULTS ONLY*: contains VIOLENT GORE and BAD LANGUAGE.

believe it or play it for yourself !!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 20
Date: July 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game freakin rocks, definitley for a mature gamers,sorry kids ! this game makes quake 4 look like doo....doo.....( if you didnt know they used the quake 4 graphics engine) it has been supercharged!!! I have to make myself stop playing this game...I loved halflife 2,quake 4 was awesome,king kong ruled,GR advanced warfighter bla bla, if all pc games were this cool and run this good it would be awesome, this is by far the best pc game next to halflife 2 that ive ever played !!!!!!!!

Great graphics but several concerns!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 16
Date: July 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A game that started out great but quickly became disappointing...let me explain.

The Pros:
1.)Great graphics and good audio.

2.)Easy to save/load with F5 and F9 respectively; but there is little reason to use these. [see Cons: 3.) below]

3.)A few new weapons and a couple of new transport systems.

The Cons:
1.)Repetitious play. About half way through you've met all the various aliens that are going to try to obstruct your path.
All levels involve killing all the aliens to open up a portal to the next level. This is basically the entire game.

2.)There are a few levels involving some flying of a lightly armed shuttle-craft; however the encounters with the enemy aircraft usually occur in an area where there is not much space and the enemy is much faster and more maneuverable than you. You're better off to quickly land your craft at a docking pod and engage the enemy fighters from the ground.

3.)BUT, the most annoying feature of actual game play is the fact that it doesn't matter if you live of die in a fight...Why? Well, let me elaborate a little; because you play a native Cherokee Indian you have connections to the spirit world. If you die you simply go to the spirit world, restock up on hit points and return to the game at the point where you died. There is no reason to fight for your life if you're taking a beating; just stand there, get killed, get automatically transported to the spririt world, reload on hit points and start again where you left off. Initially this seemed like a great feature, but it quickly became obvious that all the fun and uncertainty of major battles disappeared because you now can win all battles by simply wearing down your opponent's hit points, as he/she cannot renew theirs, at crucial times, like you can.

4.) The game is only available on the "easy" level until you beat it the first time; the problem being, I can't think of a single level I'd want to play again on any level. (easy or difficult)

5.)Also, if you wanted to play the game again on the difficult level, you must go through the entire bar sequence at the beginning of the game and also watch a prolonged movie segment at the start of the first level in the alien ship; there is no way to skip these sections and they are tediously long.

All in all a game that had great potential but instead was a disappointment in many ways; too easy and repetitious are just 2 of the a series of problems with this FPS.
2 Stars

can you say overrated?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: July 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this is the perfect example of a game that's only rated well because of the graphics. while some games have awesome graphics and gameplay and deserve praise (like half life 2 and far cry), this game doesn't.

it starts off really cool. you're a cherokee boy in a bar talking to your grandfather. you don't believe in his native american traditional ways and you want to get off the reservation. then something really crazy happens, transporting you to the FPS game.. and it's all downhill from there. the shooting is just nothing new, nothing that hasn't been done better before. one example of a game that really brought fresh and exciting gameplay to the world is the call of duty series, and they did it with a well-worn genre (world war 2 games) and brought amazing life to weapons that are over 50 years old and had been featured in many games before!!! well, it seems that prey has a great story here, and they can invent any new weapon that they want, but the gameplay is just boring... i know the real reason this game is rated so high is because of 2 things: it's NEW and the GRAPHICS. well i've seen better graphics, and new does not equal better. even if i'm the only person on earth who thinks so, i think this game is nothing special or particularly fun.

A new approach that really freshens up the genre

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 31 / 32
Date: July 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Graphics. Not bad. Music. GREAT. You get samples from the Grateful Dead, Judas Priest, Ozzy Ozbourne and SO many more. Physics? So real it just *may* make you a little queasy at first. Story line? Totally UNREAL. The storyline consists of Indian folklore. This is not your typical shooter in most ways. Sure, you have weapons, sure you blow a lot of crap up. But, that's where the similarities begin and end. There is so much more richness to the environment. There is so much more challenge here than is in most FPS games. So, to the reviewer who poked fun at us gamers J. Jiminez (below), the reason we get so excited about the latest game and the latest technology is very much similar to the reason why you feel the need to be so judgemental and pompous. We just can't help it. It makes us feel good. Hopefully his review hasn't been deleted. Otherwise this whole rant will look rather foolish.
Anyway, this program runs VERY well. It takes up about 1.5 gig in drive space. Very little for such a fully loaded game. It does come on a few CD-rom discs. It can be a little complicated for the run0and0gun types. A little like Deus Ex meets Aliens VS. Predator. You get to walk on the walls and ceiling a lot. This truly is a special program that deserves to get a LOT of attention.

Warning

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 22
Date: July 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I recently BOUGHT this game, I installed it and expected to play it. Well, the security feature on this game detected something on my system, and I had to download an illegal crack to play the single player. I havn't gotten to try the multiplayer yet, because after paying for the game, the people who secured the game from pirates think I've stolen it. If you don't know what Deamon tools is, go ahead and buy this, otherwise, I'd just pirate the damn game.

Killing Kids?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 16
Date: July 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's a good shooter, although I think the engine needs a lean left/right capability. But why do you have to kill children in one of the early levels? Isn't that a little perverse? People will like this game, no doubt, but be aware it's an adult game, and parts can be hard to stomach. YMMV.

--Edit--

I couldn't manage to sell this game, in mint condition, unregistered, on Amazon.com for a cut-rate price. That ought to tell you what people think of Prey these days. I went ahead and finished it, and - wow, just wow, this is almost certainly the worst game I've ever played. As the hours plodded on, I kept looking around for a fork to plunge into my neck.

The later levels present one uninspiring challenge after another. As the game progresses, it somehow becomes even less dynamic than it was in the beginning. The Unreal engine really shows its age here, with extremely limited movement or precision, but that doesn't matter, because the entire game is on rails anyway.

Each major fight is won by strafing and blasting - YAWN - and as the monsters get more and more advanced, their behavior is less and less interesting. Some present no feedback whatsoever, they just play out their scripts until you blast 'em dead. Nothing is at all challenging about the ending levels - in one boss fight, after discovering that movement wasn't any help, I won by standing still and spamming the mouse button while reading the Drudge Report on another machine - but the truth is, a challenge wouldn't matter anyway, because the death & rebirth sequences seem to have no effect on your success or failure at all. The only way to lose is to literally get bored and quit.

The glowy "pixel light" graphics are a high point, and are used to good effect in many places, such as the lightning gun, the spirit tunnel and the gravity portals. But even that one-trick isn't enough to save this pony, as the effect is so overused as to make gameplay impossible: blasts of enemy "pixel light" fire, so indistinct from their surrounding that they're invisible, seem to randomly assault the player in some encounters, including the utterly contrived final boss fight. It's a waste of a good technology.

I never got to play multiplayer, because the few servers still up are always completely empty. That should tell you something.

On final analysis, this game is an incredible waste of time. Don't recommend this to your friends or even your enemies. I would give it zero stars if I could ammend the rating.

killing kids ????

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: July 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

uhhh! hey scott ,how do you kill a ghost, Ive been trying to kill that small girl (ghost) and she just wont die no matter how many times I shoot her she still comes back !!!

awesome game ,one of the best fps Ive ever played !!!!graphics are the best, comprimable to chronicles of riddick ,just play the game ...you kill no children, just plenty of cannibalistic aliens who have it coming !!!!!!

Wildly inventive, but repetitive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Prey breaks some new ground in first person shooters. Being set in a space station, artificial gravity is the newest spin in the mix. You have walkways that lead up on celings, and by shooting "gravity flippers" you can also change which direction is down. Portals are everywhere, which let you walk into another room, or another part of the ship. The levels range up to enormous sizes and the designers have put the new capabilities to good use.

Prey is probably the first (and likely only) Cherokee Indian inspired outer space first person shooter. The graphics look great, it's fast paced, and, well, what's wrong with it?

Prey reminds me an awful lot of an older 3DRealms game, "Rise of the Triad." That game featured huge levels and these trampoline/jumper spots that would launch your character all over the place. It was a lot of fun at first, until you realized that despite all the jumping it was just shooting the futuristic Nazis over and over. The same with Prey, every time you press a button you know three or four Hunters will come out a bunch of portals at you.

The things I'd really liked about recent shooters like FarCry was the variety. That game took place in settings everywhere from jungle islands to ancient ruins to industrial complexes. Prey takaes place entirely in the sort of bio-mechanical/industrial environment science fiction has too much of. The enemies aren't particularly bright, and the combat is several steps backward.

Overall Prey is getting good marks for the mutliplayer portion, but the single player leaves something to be desired.

A Game Is Only As Good As The Support

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: August 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The graphics and gameplay are pretty good. Not the best, but worth picking up for a few days of fun and action. If possible, try to pick up a used copy or one that is on sale.

However, I did need some support and the makers of this game was unwilling to give any. I've never heard of 2K Games before but if they make anything else in the future I'll avoid picking it up. There are no patches, thier support forums are hardly worth visiting, and when asked to support their game they flat out refuse to do it.

So, BUYER BEWARE. When the game works, it is pretty decent. When it doesn't, you are screwed because there is little, if any, recourse especially since the store I bought it from refused to refund the money because it was an open product (I don't blame them, if I ran a computer game store, I'd have the same policy).

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